The sensor was small enough for an N-gauge train, which translates to 1:148 scale or about 9mm from rail to rail. His idea was to build a tiny control board that could fit inside the locomotive ...

Q: I have gone to train shows and garage sales and bought many N scale cars with all sorts of different couplers. I am trying ...

This is not your grandfather’s electric train set. “In the old days, you had a dial,” said Steve Riegel, who oversaw the ...

Here’s how you come aboard. Large Scale Model Railroaders from across the region are at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield for the Northeast Large Scale Train Show.

For those working in the N scale, there’s now an easy way of observing your project as the train driver would see it: [Vassily98] managed to squeeze a wireless camera into an N-scale railcar.

Richard Dobler is a railroad baron in the manner of Henry Flagler, though on a less ostentatious scale. Adjacent to his home between Lake Wales and Dundee lies an 18-acre model train domain that ...

For those who know their model trains, large scale includes S-scale, O-scale (Lionel size), G-scale (often found in garden railroads), F-scale, 7 ¼ gauge, and 7 ½ gauge models.

O scale trains are 1:48 size models. While there are larger model railroad museums, Gribbell says he believes this is the biggest O scale model one.

G-Scale Junction, a model train store in Heath, is a stop for many train lovers. The business specializes in G-Scale model trains. For more information, call 740-967-7300 or go to gscalejunction.com.

The business sells new and used trains of all sizes, including O-gauge, G-gauge and HO scale. Ralph Burrell started with trains as a hobby at 9 years old. “It was a big Christmas thing.

That’s not all you’ll find at the home of model-train club Scale Rails of Southwest Florida, where its 46 members have duplicated those towns as a model-train layout. “I call it 3-D art ...